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...report published in the American Israelite 21 years ago. The late G. Deutsch, doctor of philosophy, then wrote: "The Prayer of Maimonides, so called, was written neither by Maimonides nor by any other medieval physician. It is the work in good faith of a modern Jewish doctor, Marcus Hertz of Berlin (1747-1803), the friend and physician of Moses Mendelssohn.* It was written in German and was translated into Hebrew. . . ." And from Hebrew back into modern languages...
...stocks. After the heat of the day it was cooling to return to Mr. Lasker's low, rambling white stucco villa (with rose tile roof) and listen to the Atlantic tapping on the sandy front lawn. Next door, like a Miamese twin, was the house of John D. Hertz, Yellow Cab tycoon. Mr. Hertz has a twin-motored Sikorsky in which the Vice President was tempted to take...
...Heinrich Hertz (1857-94) discovered electro-magnetic waves. Light was realized to be an electro-magnetic phenomenon...
...never sat in an automobile. That did not prevent him from becoming an automobile salesman. He earned $15,000 in commissions the first year. Then, in 1910. he went into the taxicab business with Walden W. Shaw. The Chicago Athletic Club wanted a private cab service. Messrs. Hertz and Shaw had only two second-hand cars. They borrowed eight others, painted them brightly, paraded past the Chicago Athletic Club, won the contract...
...John Daniel Hertz was ready to make the taxicab an industry and to upset all previous methods. He had engineers design a small, tough cab. of low upkeep cost. He manufactured dozens, hundreds of them. He painted them an eye-arresting yellow-orange. He announced rates that knocked the public's eye out- 30? for the first mile, and no charge for the "dead haul'' (let a driver go five miles to get a 30? passenger if necessary). The Yellow cabs were shined up every day. Dentists and doctors took care of the drivers. Knowing well...